macaw

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macaw

one of the tropical parrots of the family Psittacidae. Macaws are very colorful, have long tails and bare cheek patches. They are big birds (up to 3 feet long) and are members of the Ara genus, e.g. Ara macao, the scarlet macaw.

macaw wasting disease

a progressive weight loss associated with atony of the crop and proventriculus and atrophy of the gizzard, a nonsuppurative encephalitis and visceral ganglioneuritis. Called also proventricular dilatation syndrome and infiltrative splanchnic neuropathy.

Besides employing the objective format of the timeline, Hakansson also included four bulletin boards covered with sheets of often emotionally charged web chatter, in several languages, bemoaning the fate of the macaw.

Look around, though, and the birds are all caged - something like 65 pairs of them in all, beautiful breeding pairs of scarlet macaws, military macaws, African gray parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos, housed in wire cages arranged in clusters spread out beneath the trees.

The suspect, a 47-year-old self-employed Tokyo man, allegedly sold the eight macaws, which are protected by the Washington Convention on endangered species, on two occasions, first in August 1999 and then in October last year, without a license.

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